Author: Linda Metz

Watching movies and series in your target language is a great way to practice. Even though it might seem quite passive, you will learn a lot by just hearing the language. Besides that, you will also learn about typical cultural

This morning I posted a picture of my usual breakfast on Instagram. I look forward to my breakfast every day, but especially in weekends when I get to have breakfast together with my husband and daughter. On work days they

It’s Wednesday again so time for a new word of the week. This week’s word is… graffiti Originally this is an Italian word meaning engravings or scratched drawings. It’s the plural form of the word graffito. Related Italian words are

This week I am introducing the Word of the Week, an item that I will do every Wednesday from now on. Today’s word is… Restaurant A word that, luckily for many tourists, is nearly the same in about forty different

My own experience with German goes back to my childhood. Back when I was a kid there weren’t many TV stations to choose from and there was no Internet, so no YouTube or Netflix. We had three Dutch TV-stations and

I always like to have three languages to put my focus on. One where I’m a beginner, one where I’m intermediate and one where I already am a confident speaker, but that can be perfectioned or that needs attention because

Since 1950 the third Sunday in January has been World Religion Day. I love the original purpose of this day being to show that spiritual principles underlying the world’s religions are harmonious, and that religions play a significant role in

There can be multiple reasons why you are starting to learn a new language. Perhaps you’re not even doing it because you really want it yourself, but because your boss wants you to or you need it as part of